Artist's Back to Basics

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with Scott Mcdougall I’ve travelled extensively, pursuing subject matter to capture and translate onto canvas. I’ve covered thousands of kilometres on foot and have slogged my way through the Barrios of Spain, the medinas of Morocco and across the pr

Artists & Illustrators

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It’s a grey day in north London when Patrick Cullen opens the studio door, his bright welcome a contrast to the ominous clouds above. His two-storey work space opens out onto a quaint cobbled mews in a desirable corner of the city, but no one is ling

Artists Magazine

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• Know what you hope to learn from copying a masterwork. The goal isn’t to make a forgery but to reverse-engineer the master’s thought process. It’s not as much about the painting as it is about understanding the artist’s approach. • Avoid copying t

Artists Magazine

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there was a time when I thought art was simply about putting paint on canvas or like surfaces. Art schools taught little more than that, and all the great masters were painters. Who was I to argue? I got my start in painting with watercolor, quite en

Watercolor Artist

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Rachael Grimm grew up in a village outside of Liverpool, in England. She lost her mother when she was 12. Her father, despite having to raise the family on his own, made time to support her artistic interests by providing her with an abundance of art

Wallpaper

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In 1990, Lee Bae was a classic starving artist, a 34-year-old immigrant from South Korea working in a squat in a dodgy suburb of Paris. Lacking money for paint, he went to a service station and bought a bag of charcoal. Sitting in his current Paris s

Artists & Illustrators

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This challenge will provide a chance to create and observe unusual colour combinations and unexpected effects. It also helps to fuel the imagination, keeping your ideas fresh and interesting. In A Treatise on Painting, the book that compiled his note

Artist's Palette

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• Be cautious with the size of the painting (I worked on a 1200 x 900 mm canvas). Sometimes, if you blow up the objects too much, you might not be satisfied with the result. It is often better to choose a smaller size of canvas that suits your needs

PleinAir Magazine

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Sometimes the landscape will hand us what we need; sometimes we have to fight for it. The first thing I do when I arrive at a site is take it in — all 360 degrees — so I know what I have to work with; anything within view becomes fair game for my pai

Art & Antiques

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THIS SEASON, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries of Thomaston, Maine, holds two important sales, the first on July 18 and 19 and the second closing out the summer on August 29 and 30. In both sales, the auction house will include an array of antiques,

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: Poland MEDIA: Oil paint WEB: www.agnieszkawencka.pl “When creating a picture I initially follow some generalised impressions, but the majority is created in the course of the painting process,” reveals Agnieszka. “An innocent face and a cal

Artist's Palette

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Using my selected photograph as reference, I do some small thumbnail sketches to work out a composition and decide on a focal area. I then prepare the canvas with a red underpainting (warm red and a touch of raw umber). In this case I have used acryl

Southwest Art

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WOMEN ARTISTS of the West heads to Mary Williams Fine Arts in Boulder, CO, this month for its 49th annual national juried exhibition. In a nod to the venue’s Rocky Mountain environs, the group has named its latest show Mountain Aire, but the title—wi

Wallpaper

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Bosco Sodi’s painting studio is set in a mid-19th-century warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a cavernous space with austere stone walls, exposed ceiling beams and towering doors that open onto the waterfront. Despite the impressive scale of his work (t

Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

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An empty canvas is always challenging, but has the potential to become a significant piece of artwork. It was always explained to me that a painting is like a sunset … they’re all nice, but sometimes we’ll stand back and look at one and say, “Wow! Ho

Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

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To whom it may concern I am an emerging artist based in Botanic Ridge Victoria. I primarily work in coloured pencil and would love to be considered for inclusion in the Woodlands Gallery. I have attached four examples of my work for your information.

Southwest Art

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WHEN ADDREN DOSS signed up for a mechanical drawing class in high school, she boldly set a precedent. “This was in 1966, and they didn’t allow girls to take that class,” says Doss, for whom the school decided to make an exception—and fortunately so,

Grand Designs Australia

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When you step inside Lara Scolari’s luminous Balmain studio, you won’t find her sitting demurely behind an easel, a dainty paintbrush in hand. No. Not in this studio. In this studio the hands, the arms, the whole body are the brushes. “The brush beco

PleinAir Magazine

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This painting was the spring installment of a four-season commission Horne made for the owner of this property. He generally spends about 30 hours on a painting of this size. “I knew I wanted an afternoon scene with backlighting, but I didn't see tha

DESIGNLINES

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In his Toronto studio, Brian Rideout is busy painting history. His American Collection series of oil paintings depicts the residences of the highly privileged – and the famous artworks sequestered within. “I was interested in documenting art collecti

Artist Profile

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IN 1996, YOU COMPLETED A BACHELOR OF FINE ART from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Would you have ever dreamed that twenty four years later, your painting, Michael Buxton Portrait (2012) would be hanging on the walls of the gallery next

Artist's Back to Basics

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Faye McBryde Art in one form or another has always been a part of my life. During my school years in Melbourne I loved doing projects that involved a lot of drawing and maps. I think most of my marks came from the ability to have good looking books a

Artist's Palette

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• Due to work commitments my painting opportunities are limited … so I am a great believer in not wasting too much time. If I see a nice rig that I think would look good on canvas, I will take several photographs of it. I make sure I get a few close-

Artists & Illustrators

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WHERE DID YOU STUDY? I completed my foundation at Falmouth then went on to study a BA in illustration at Brighton. Although I was often frustrated to not have the studio space I needed to paint, I was taught skills such as presentation and professio

The Saturday Evening Post

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Page 57: The Saturday Evening Post, cover (Bucking Bronco), 1903, oil on canvas on hardboard, 27 ½ x 19 ½ in. Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles Page 58: Rounding Up, 1905, oil on canvas, 38 x 26 in. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody,

Coast

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• Take a look at Lisa’s paintings at lisamcdonaldart.com. Prices for original wave oil paintings, 75cm x 75cm, from £950. The paintings are mounted on professional grade canvas and don’t need a frame, and each one comes complete with a little poem by

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Luka du Plessis of Despatch writes According to my parents, this painting is an original work by A.L. Grace. Frame excluded, it measures 500 x 360mm but other than that I have no information on it. Is it valuable? Kayleen Wrigley of Walker Scott Ar

Art & Antiques

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ON JANUARY 9, Jerald Melberg Gallery opens “Katherine Boxall: Intelligent Abstraction.” This is the Charlotte, N.C.-based gallery’s first solo presentation of Boxall’s work. The paintings in the show, all recent, are large in scale, and incorporate a

Southwest Art

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BRIMMING WITH sumptuous texture and color, the acrylic paintings of wildlife artist Vickie McMillan-Hayes appear realistic from afar. Up close, however, viewers see impasto and even areas of abstraction in her impressionistic portrayals of flora and

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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With ferocious determination, Catron Wallace pounces on a canvas. Timidity doesn’t enter her thinking. Her body’s movement is revealed in lines that rise like airy ribbons above layers of acrylic paint. This self-taught painter imbues her art with th